One thing I learned from my eight years of writing about Major League Baseball is that people generally don’t care about 29 of the 30 teams. National news is ignored unless it relates to your favorite team, or perhaps a team in the same division. You probably know that Paul Goldschmidt, Patrick Corbin and Yasiel Puig are out of the National League West, for example, but you might have a harder time remembering exactly where they went. And when it comes to MLB making broad changes, it’s easy to tune them out like the adults in “Peanuts.”

Except there are several new rule changes, and they’ll all affect the Giants. Which, by extension, means that they will affect you. In a few months, you’ll carve out three hours for a game that will be decided by these rule changes, if only indirectly. Next year is when the big changes start.

So what are the new rules, and how do they relate to the Giants and your enjoyment (or lack thereof)?